Lawfare Archive: Jack Goldsmith on Obama's War Powers Legacy
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🗓️ 10 November 2023
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From November 8, 2014: Last month, Jack gave a talk at the Hoover Institution on President Obama's war powers legacy. It's a remarkable address: hard-hitting, clear, and sure to discomfort Obama's defenders on war powers issues. In essence, Jack argues that Obama has gone way beyond President Bush in the aggressiveness of his approach vis a vis Congress to initiating overseas conflict.
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| 1:07.0 | 2023. |
| 1:11.0 | This week was the 50th anniversary of the passage of the War Powers Resolution. |
| 1:15.0 | To mark the occasion, two pieces in lawfare examined the legacy of the statue. |
| 1:19.0 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from November 6th, 2014, in which Jack Goldsmith, speaking |
| 1:26.4 | at the Hoover Institution's fall 2014 retreat, discussed President Obama's broad claims of |
| 1:31.4 | constitutional and statutory authority to initiate conflict |
| 1:34.9 | and how those claims interact with the war powers resolution. I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the Law Fair Podcast, |
| 1:47.0 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the Law Fair Podcast November 8 November 8, 2014. |
| 1:54.4 | Those are the dulcet tones of Law Fair co-founder Jack Goldsmith, |
| 1:59.3 | talking war powers at the Hoover Institution's 2014 fall retreat last month. |
| 2:05.8 | Jack gave a talk entitled President Obama's war powers legacy |
| 2:10.9 | on Obama's exceptionally broad and under-discussed claims of executive authority to initiate |
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